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MediaDefender and the Streisand Effect
Foldarn writes "It looks like MediaDefender, in an effort to quell the explosion of negative publicity over its leaked email archive, has instead done the opposite (also known as the Streisand Effect) and spread it even more widely. Ars Technica is reporting that MediaDefender has sent scary-lawyer letters to two popular BitTorrent sites, MegaNova and IsoHunt, demanding that they remove the offending content. Both sites have responded with derision. Also, Ars notes that MediaDefender seems to be behind a DDoS attack against the site that originally leaked its email." Final word to Ars's Ryan Paul: "MediaDefender's entire business model has been based on recognition of the inescapable fact that litigation cannot stop the spread of content on the Internet, so it is ironic that the company has turned to legal threats."
They use DDoS attacks against P2P and now, apparently, other sites as well. That puts them at odds with federal computer crime statutes. What do you think?
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censorship is not possible on P2P. speaking of mediadefender, if they do in fact execute DDOS attacks, they are breaking more rules than they are trying to protect.
Oh not, the FBI isn't interested in big companies that break computer laws. They are interested in teenagers and organized crime. But flash your corporate charter, and suddenly, you aren't a hacker, you are defending the profits of a major content studio from hackers who are using deCSS.
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Regardless, companies should know by now that any attempt to censor or remove (in particular, by the means of cease-and-desist letters) information will backfire, bigtime.
You can't argue this was intentional, either, because MediaDefender is just drawing bad press to themselves.
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Ironic that MAFIAADefenders business model is based on stopping content leaking out onto P2P networks.
When they can't even stop their own internal emails and phone calls from leaking you'd have to be pretty gullible to believe their claims. To make matters worse they resort to legal nasty grams and censorship to try and suppress the evidence of their incompetence which makes them look all the more the fool.
To really put the cherry on the cake they're now resorting to illegal DDOS attacks, which for the most part have also failed.
If they were in any other business it would already be over for them, sadly for us, fortunately for them their clients are just the sort of gullible people who will keep doing business because they can't face the real truth. Their business model has failed.
Sadly we haven't heard the last of MAFIAADefender.
>That puts them at odds with federal computer crime statutes. What do you think?
That it looks like two criminal gangs fighting it out!
I note with interest that Sheppard Mullin (generally a good law firm in my experience, irrespective of their current client) are claiming that the items are "trade secrets". They've lost the argument before they started. The cat was out of the bag, and those emails have been seen and distributed far and wide. As such, these are no longer "trade secrets" (like the formula to coke). Their only recourse is against the Media-Defender Defenders whoever they may be. Good luck ever finding them, and if they do then what? Odds are that their total net worth is far less than what Media-Defender are paying Sheppard Mullin (they aren't cheap!!) :)
Are you sure it isn't just a setup? I mean the emails were leaked somehow, It is pretty obvious about what would happen with them. Especially if they contained something juicy.
So now, they have known copy-righted works being purposely distributed on those networks which chose to ignore the legal legal remedy that is necessary before a massive lawsuit puts the file sharing networks out of business.
If you thought this outcome was obvious, what makes us think that they couldn't have thought about it too. Time will tell.
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Old enough to know that your silly corporate conspiracy theories, are just that...
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That is pretty stupid. If they go out of business, what is MediaDefender going to sell?
They want rampant bittorrent piracy, except for their customers products, where they want to be able to demonstrate they made a huge difference where law suits didn't.
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